[Tex/LaTex] Help with math symbols in BibTeX

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I am writing a PhD thesis using LaTeX. Every thing is going fine, but I have problem with the output of the mathematical symbols in the references lists. I copy one example from the Pdf file to make it clear for you. You can see that the fraction remains the same.

[1] Mezzacapo, F. and Cirac, J. I. (2010) Ground-state properties of
the spin-\frac{1}{2} antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the
triangular lattice: a variational study based on entangled-plaquette
states. New. J. Phys., 12,
103039.

You can see below the all the packages I use:

\documentclass[12pt,PhD,twoside,a4paper]{GB_muthesis}%[10pt,PhD, singlespace]
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage[bookmarks=true,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,
urlcolor=blue,citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage[numbers,comma, sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{rotating}
%\usepackage{GE_manthesis}
\usepackage{GB_thesis}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{fmtcount}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{chapterbib}
\usepackage{subfigure}% allow subfigures
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{url, enumitem}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{notoccite}%This package is for ingnoring the citation in the caption of the figures and tables.
\begin{document}

Best Answer

With the following MWE you can see how to include mathematical symbols in your bibliography. Off course you have to include mathematics with $.

The MWE

\RequirePackage{filecontents}        % loading package filecontents
% writing file \jobname.bib, for example mb-bibtex.bib.
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{Mathetitle,
  author  = {Mezzacapo, F. and Cirac, J. I.},
  title   = {Ground-state properties of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ antiferromagnetic {Heisenberg} 
             model on the triangular lattice: a variational study based on 
             entangled-plaquette states.},
  year    = {2010},
  journal = {New. J. Phys.},
  number  = {12},
  issn    = {103039},
}
\end{filecontents*}


\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}         % bibliography style
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}    % better urls in bibliography

\begin{document}
Test of bibliography: 
A title with mathematics~\cite{Mathetitle}.

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}  % needs package natbib
\bibliography{\jobname}       % uses \jobname.bib, according to \jobname.tex
\end{document}

gives you

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Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Bibtex style help – alphabetical sort

Sorting of references is a job for the bibliography style file .bst. The bibliography style you are using cj.bst is set-up to not sort the references, or rather to print them in the order they are cited. \nocite{*} then gives the order they are listed in the bib file.

Reading the file cj.bst you can see that it has been generated by the makebst utility of custom-bib, plus a final bit of hand editing. Fortunately, the bst file tells us that custom-bib was provided with the options

 %% merlin.mbs  (with options: `seq-no,nm-rev,ed-rev,jnrlst,nmlm,x10,x0,m1,dt-beg,
 yr-par,xmth,yrp-x,vol-bf,vnum-x,volp-com,numser,edpar,blk-tit,in-x,pp,ed,abr,xedn,jabr')

The first option seq-no means that references are to be listed in the order they are cited. To effect sorting, we should reproduce this creation process without this first option, as sorting by author name is the default. This may accomplished by creating the file cjj.dbj:

\input docstrip

\preamble
----------------------------------------
*** cj with sort ***

\endpreamble

\postamble
End of customized bst file
\endpostamble

\keepsilent

\askforoverwritefalse
\def\MBopts{\from{merlin.mbs}{%
nm-rev,ed-rev,jnrlst,nmlm,x10,x0,m1,dt-beg,yr-par,xmth,yrp-x,vol-bf,vnum-x,volp-com,numser,edpar,blk-tit,in-x,pp,ed,abr,xedn,jabr  }}
\generate{\file{cjj.bst}{\MBopts}}
\endbatchfile

and running latex on this file to produce cjj.bst. Using this style as follows

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{cjj}
\bibliography{bib}
\end{document}

with bib.bib containing

@Article{test,
  author =   {Author, First},
  title =    {Title},
  journal =  {Jour},
  year =     2000
}

@Article{type,
  author =   {Aardvark, New},
  title =    {Titling},
  journal =  {J},
  year =     2002
}

produces

Sample output

with the references sorted by author.

This may be good enough for your purposes. As mentioned above, the file cj.bst contains a couple of edits by hand to change some fine details of the printing of certain references. These are clearly flagged in that file, and it should not be too hard to implement those changes should you be so inclined.

[Tex/LaTex] Math Symbols Palette

Yes, there are editors with such GUIs.

Winedt:

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You have to press the \Sigma button (shown in red rectangle in picture) to open the math palette. It has also the AMS symbols etc as you can see from the list (inside green rectangle). Caveat: It is shareware.

2. Texmaker:

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